{"id":953,"date":"2017-07-11T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2017-07-11T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T11:37:15","slug":"washington-post-review-of-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2017\/07\/11\/washington-post-review-of-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post review of &#8220;Kingdom of Olives and Ash&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review (<em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Washington Post<\/em>, June 23, 2017) \u00a0of a new collection of essays about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happens when famous novelists \u2018confront the Occupation\u2019 in the West Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Matti Friedman<\/p>\n<p id=\"U12002087982594eIF\">Last year, the American\u00a0novelists Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman and Dave Eggers led a group of writers to \u201cbear witness\u201d to the crisis in Iraq, confronting the fate of that country during and since the American occupation \u2014 the hundreds of thousands of dead, the vanished minorities, the chaos spreading across the region. The resulting anthology adds up to a piercing, introspective look at what it means to be American in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m kidding! Reporting on Iraq is bothersome, and so is introspection. Instead, they came to \u201cbear witness\u201d to the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza, where thousands of reporters, nongovernmental organization staffers, activists and diplomats hover around a conflict with a death toll last year that was about a third of the homicide number in Baltimore. It\u2019s the kind of Mideast conflagration where writers can sally forth in an air-conditioned bus, safely observe the natives for a few hours and make it back to a nice hotel for drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/what-happens-when-famous-novelists-confront-the-occupation-in-the-west-bank\/2017\/06\/23\/4541c1d8-2927-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html?utm_term=.d5df45042522\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review (The\u00a0Washington Post, June 23, 2017) \u00a0of a new collection of essays about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank: What happens when famous novelists \u2018confront the Occupation\u2019 in the West Bank By Matti Friedman Last year, the American\u00a0novelists Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman and Dave Eggers led a group of writers to \u201cbear witness\u201d to the crisis in Iraq, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}